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EDUCATION

Jun. 2000 : Habilitation à diriger des recherches. University of Lille 2, France. Supervisor: Prof. Bruno Amable.

Nov. 1995 : PhD in Economics. Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), France. Thesis : «L’avenir des retraites publiques face au vieillissement de la population» (Public pensions and population aging). Supervisors: Prof. Philippe Michel & Maurice Marchand.

Sep. 1991 : MA in Economics. Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

 

AWARDS - GRANTS - FELLOWSHIPS - EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

2010-13: Editorial board of the World Bank Economic Review.

2012: Invited professor - University of Bordeaux IV

2009-2012: Research director of IRES - Université Catholique de Louvain.

2009-13: Invited professor - University of Nantes

2008: Research director of the department of economics - Université Catholique de Louvain.

2008: Developing Countries Prize 2008 - The Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, supported by the KFW Entwicklungsbank Frankfurt. Award shared with Hillel Rapoport for our collective research on the
migration topic.

2007-: The World Bank (Development Research Group) - Visiting Research Fellow from September 2007 to December 2007

2007-: CReAM (University College London) - Research Fellow - Visit CReAM website

2006-: Editorial board of the Regards Economiques .

2006-10: TOM Research Training Network (Marie Curie Actions - CEPR) - Team Leader at the University of Louvain. Visit TOM website

2004-: World Bank - Short Term Consultant

2004-: Research Fellow at IZA Bonn, Germany - Visit IZA website

2003: Fellowship of the Canadian Embassy. Visiting Ottawa University in August 2003.

2003 : Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Reasearch for the paper "Brain drain and LDC’s growth : winners and losers".

2001 : Paper "Brain drain and economic development: theory and evidence" ranked first in the "2001 top ten requested papers" - Journal of Development Economics.

1989 : Prix de la Banque Nationale de Paris (Fourth year thesis in Economics at the University of Liege).



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